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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011
households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388372
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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman's right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The former...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653755
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Does laboratory trading mirror behavior in real world markets? : fair bargaining and competitive bidding on EBay
Bolton, Gary E. (contributor); Ockenfels, Axel (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647263
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Facts or ideology : what determines the results of econometric estimates of the deterrence effect of death penalty? ; a meta-analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2013
Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722413
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The effects of computers on children's social development and school participation : evidence from a randomized control experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571485
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How "Chicagoan" are Gary Becker's economic models of marriage?
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2009
This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850161
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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898821
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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … marital patterns by education for men.*Published: Adam Isen & Betsey Stevenson, 2008."Women's Education and Family Behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937272
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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016
This paper bridges two distinct areas of inquiry: the economic theory of the family and behavioral research on time …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family … more likely to happen if past investments in family-specific capital have been low. We obtain three main sets of results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509239
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Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes : evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919474